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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glutton \Glut"ton\, a.
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. ``Glutton souls.''
--Dryden.
A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry
ministry in our days. --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun glotun F. glouton fr L.
gluto, glutto. See {Glut}.]
1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
2. Fig.: One who gluts himself.
Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo luscus}), of the
family {Mustelid[ae]}, about the size of a large badger.
It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious,
whence the name the wolverene. It is a native of the
northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glutton \Glut"ton\, v. t. & i.
To glut; to eat voraciously. [Obs.]
Gluttoned at last return at home to pine. --Lovelace.
Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed. --Drayton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
glutton
n 1: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
[syn: {gourmand}, {trencherman}]
2: wolverine of northern Eurasia [syn: {Gulo gulo}, {wolverine}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Glutton
(Deut. 21:20), Heb. zolel from a word meaning "to shake out,"
"to squander;" and hence one who is prodigal, who wastes his
means by indulgence. In Prov. 23:21, the word means debauchees
or wasters of their own body. In Prov. 28:7, the word (pl.) is
rendered Authorized Version "riotous men;" Revised Version,
"gluttonous." Matt. 11:19, Luke 7:34, Greek phagos, given to
eating, gluttonous.
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by
committing dyspepsia.
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